arXiv:2607. 19854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study horizon-free regret minimization for finite-horizon time-homogeneous tabular Markov decision processes with $S$ states, $A$ actions, horizon $H$, and per-trajectory total reward bounded by $1$.
By Runlong Zhou, Zihan Zhang, Maryam Fazel, Simon S. Du
arXiv:2510. 06647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study fine-grained gap-dependent regret bounds for model-free reinforcement learning in episodic tabular Markov Decision Processes.
By Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue
arXiv:2510. 19528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate the fundamental problem of leveraging offline data to accelerate online reinforcement learning - a direction with strong potential but limited theoretical grounding.
By Sebastian Reboul, H\'el\`ene Halconruy
arXiv:2606. 04182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We formulate the problem of \emph{exact unlearning} in reinforcement learning, where the goal is to design an efficient framework that enables the removal of any user's data upon deletion request, i.
By Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Raman Arora
arXiv:2602. 09474v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reinforcement learning in MDPs whose transition function is stochastic at most steps but may behave adversarially at a fixed subset of $\Lambda$ steps per episode.
By Ofir Schlisselberg, Tal Lancewicki, Yishay Mansour
arXiv:2603. 23461v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reinforcement learning (RL) with linear function approximation in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) satisfying \emph{linear Bellman completeness} -- a fundamental setting where the Bellman backup of any linear value function remains linear.
By Zakaria Mhammedi, Alexander Rakhlin, Nneka Okolo
arXiv:2512. 06244v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The exploration-exploitation dilemma in reinforcement learning (RL) is a fundamental challenge to efficient RL algorithms.
By Caleb Ju, Guanghui Lan
arXiv:2608. 02034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step returns accelerate reward propagation in off-policy reinforcement learning, but couple the evaluation of each decision to the suboptimal logged actions that follow it, inducing a pessimistic bias that grows with the horizon.
By Abdelghani Ghanem, Mounir Ghogho
arXiv:2603. 03480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reinforcement learning with delayed state observation, where the agent observes the current state after some random number of time steps.
By Harin Lee, Kevin Jamieson
arXiv:2505. 15201v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms sample multiple n>1 solution attempts for each problem and reward them independently.
By Christian Walder, Deep Karkhanis
arXiv:2606. 31769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study policy optimization for online episodic tabular Markov decision processes with unknown transition kernels, aiming for best-of-both-worlds guarantees together with data-dependent regret bounds.
By Mingyi Li, Taira Tsuchiya, Kenji Yamanishi
arXiv:2608. 02951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) for general stochastic MDPs often requires training a reward model.
By Evan Assmus, Qining Zhang, Lei Ying